That would be panacea junkie me. There is no voter database. Everything you described like residency, crime records, etc is already in a database. Why make another database to combine that stuff just so it can be hacked? You are a database junkie. Do you work for Oracle, in sales perhaps?
What Hostage is describing is a retrofit of the current voting systems and that voting system includes databases of registered voters. He uses the blockchain just to tally votes.
I am proposing t a complete elimination of the voter database, replaced with a blockchain to register voters and to tally votes. No voter database. Your answer is that I should know full well that they will never get rid of the voter database, just like they will never get rid of the horse and buggy. And you are right, there are still horses and buggies around.
That’s an interesting idea to set up a blockchain to register voters.
Does it mean the registrations would have to be performed for each election?
The current registrations would expire and be purged a certain time after recent elections?
How would you compartmentalize a voter’s personal info from how they voted?
A blockchain of voter registrations could solve a lot of fraud problems that currently run in the existing voter databases.
Problem they’re in MULTIPLE database, scattered around the country. The registrar’s office MUST have a database to work with. I’m a usable product junkie. They can’t operate without a database. And really as an old friend said “ALL software is database driven, because in the end ALL software is about the storage and retrieval of data.”
You can’t eliminate the database. Without the database you have to voter registration data. Even if you turn the DB into a blockchain (which seems to be maybe what you would be saying if you hadn’t decided database was a 4 letter word) it’s still a database, there’s still fallible humans in charge of it, and if somebody can legitimately add, subtract and modify data in it then somebody can ILLEGITIMATELY add, subtract and modify data. Nothing is unhackable, it’s just that somethings are best hacked through social engineering and getting somebody’s password.